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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas Off Topic Chat

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    #15932
    Norrie Rugger Head
    Registered Users Posts: 759 ✭✭✭Norrie Rugger Head


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121841213#Comment_121841213

    It was split between supply and demand.

    Engineering was in with supply along with brewing, fermenting, kegging, and quality labs. Good place. Really liked the job and culture there.

    Only issues taking a job there was it always seemed to be redundancy cyle after cycle.


    I know sales reps who bloody loved their job. My own office may have been the outlier. Bloody hell, it might just have been me a really bad fit in an admin role as opposed to the advertised tech role... but no one seemed truly happy in that office

    ⛥ ̸̱̼̞͛̀̓̈́͘#C̶̼̭͕̎̿͝R̶̦̮̜̃̓͌O̶̬͙̓͝W̸̜̥͈̐̾͐Ṋ̵̲͔̫̽̎̚͠ͅT̸͓͒͐H̵͔͠È̶̖̳̘͍͓̂W̴̢̋̈͒͛̋I̶͕͑͠T̵̻͈̜͂̇Č̵̤̟̑̾̂̽H̸̰̺̏̓ ̴̜̗̝̱̹͛́̊̒͝⛥



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    #15933
    Smell the glove
    Registered Users Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭Smell the glove


    Suppose I better open this bad boy up.


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    #15934
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,820 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121843150#Comment_121843150

    My god your willpower is amazing that couldn’t have made it to Christmas in my house.



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    #15935
    Norrie Rugger Head
    Registered Users Posts: 759 ✭✭✭Norrie Rugger Head


    I have easter chocolate bunnies that haven't even made it to easter!


    Edit: I had...

    Post edited by Norrie Rugger Head on

    ⛥ ̸̱̼̞͛̀̓̈́͘#C̶̼̭͕̎̿͝R̶̦̮̜̃̓͌O̶̬͙̓͝W̸̜̥͈̐̾͐Ṋ̵̲͔̫̽̎̚͠ͅT̸͓͒͐H̵͔͠È̶̖̳̘͍͓̂W̴̢̋̈͒͛̋I̶͕͑͠T̵̻͈̜͂̇Č̵̤̟̑̾̂̽H̸̰̺̏̓ ̴̜̗̝̱̹͛́̊̒͝⛥



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    #15936
    Smell the glove
    Registered Users Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭Smell the glove


    We get so much chocolate as presents that it lasts it until around June/ July every year. We still have ......

    A box of Merci

    Box of Lilly o Brien's

    Box of dairy milk chunks

    Box of dairy box

    Thompsons chocolate snowman

    Box of Belgian biscuits

    Half a kilo bar of dairy milk

    Pouch of Reese peanut butter cups.



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    #15937
    Norrie Rugger Head
    Registered Users Posts: 759 ✭✭✭Norrie Rugger Head


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121843577#Comment_121843577

    How, how could you?



    I mean, seriously, how could you not have that eaten yet?

    ⛥ ̸̱̼̞͛̀̓̈́͘#C̶̼̭͕̎̿͝R̶̦̮̜̃̓͌O̶̬͙̓͝W̸̜̥͈̐̾͐Ṋ̵̲͔̫̽̎̚͠ͅT̸͓͒͐H̵͔͠È̶̖̳̘͍͓̂W̴̢̋̈͒͛̋I̶͕͑͠T̵̻͈̜͂̇Č̵̤̟̑̾̂̽H̸̰̺̏̓ ̴̜̗̝̱̹͛́̊̒͝⛥



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    #15938
    Smell the glove
    Registered Users Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭Smell the glove


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121843280#Comment_121843280

    It's not willpower....we are still eating chocolate it's just hard to get through it all 🤣🤣



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    #15939
    Smell the glove
    Registered Users Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭Smell the glove


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121843586#Comment_121843586

    We get so much bought for us that I have to arrange it in order of best before date 🤣. Wife is a crèche worker so....lots of chocolate gifts from parents on the last week before Christmas.



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    #15940
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,820 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121843588#Comment_121843588

    Sorry I don’t understand the sentence 😂😂😂



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    #15941
    tscul32
    Registered Users Posts: 2,555 ✭✭✭tscul32


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121843588#Comment_121843588

    You're just not trying hard enough 🤣



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    #15942
    Cork Lass
    Registered Users Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Cork Lass


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121843588#Comment_121843588

    Do you have room for a lodger?



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    #15943
    Norrie Rugger Head
    Registered Users Posts: 759 ✭✭✭Norrie Rugger Head


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121844352#Comment_121844352

    If he gets rid of the chocolate storage room...

    ⛥ ̸̱̼̞͛̀̓̈́͘#C̶̼̭͕̎̿͝R̶̦̮̜̃̓͌O̶̬͙̓͝W̸̜̥͈̐̾͐Ṋ̵̲͔̫̽̎̚͠ͅT̸͓͒͐H̵͔͠È̶̖̳̘͍͓̂W̴̢̋̈͒͛̋I̶͕͑͠T̵̻͈̜͂̇Č̵̤̟̑̾̂̽H̸̰̺̏̓ ̴̜̗̝̱̹͛́̊̒͝⛥



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    #15944
    Smell the glove
    Registered Users Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭Smell the glove


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121844082#Comment_121844082

    I ate a dairy milk and a double decker last night and felt guilty!



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    #15945
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,820 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121844565#Comment_121844565

    Sorry I still don’t understand the sentence.

    whats this guilt you speak of?



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    #15946
    Smell the glove
    Registered Users Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭Smell the glove


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121845589#Comment_121845589

    🤣🤣.



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    #15947
    DvB
    Registered Users Posts: 10,267 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Laughing at this conversation, it's a repeat of a regular occurrence in our house. My wife and son could eat their own bodyweight in chocolate not a bother whilst myself and my daughter regularly scold them for it 🤣

    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




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    #15948
    CheerLouth
    Registered Users Posts: 2,441 ✭✭✭CheerLouth


    Morning Elves! Such a busy weekend with a party for our middle fella who will be 7 this week! 7 - I just don't know where the years have gone! Also managed to do something to my back in the gym on Friday evening. No idea what as it didn't hurt at all throughout the session & I didn't feel like I was overdoing it, but Saturday & yesterday I was in bits. Seems to have calmed down now today TG...might just have overstretched it.



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    #15949
    CheerLouth
    Registered Users Posts: 2,441 ✭✭✭CheerLouth


    Also about the Guinness chat, my father in law's brother worked for them years ago - probably 40 years ago now if not longer. The brother is long dead now, God rest him, but my father in law is still telling the tales. Something crazy like they had an allowance of 10 pints a day (if not more) and they tried to get rid of that so they all went on strike & they had to keep giving them the pints. They were all drunk as skunks most of the time, or else had the tolerance of a rhino. The lorry drivers were also given tokens when they arrived with loads or for collections so they could have a pint or two while they were waiting. Absolute madness!



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    #15950
    Norrie Rugger Head
    Registered Users Posts: 759 ✭✭✭Norrie Rugger Head


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121847683#Comment_121847683

    The benefits the Guinness Group workers got was insane.

    Gold plated pensions

    Free medical centre (GP, Pharmacy, Physio) on site for life. For them and any dependents

    Free dinner every day, also into retirement. Would see groups of pensioners coming into the canteen for a catch up over a three course meal

    Alcohol allowances

    I think that they also kept use of the onsite pool and gym.


    Most of those were rolled back in the Diageo years and while good were nowhere near AS good. Mainly that they were no longer lifetime benefits

    Pension was still very good.

    Access to medical centre now was just for you, while you worked there.

    You got your three course meal every day

    Alcohol allowance was massively reduced. You got €50/month, in a 3 month period. Was OK on beer but it's the heavily discounted spirits where that was a massive bonus. I stocked out my wedding after bar on bottles of spirits and all the white wine for the dinner. Great memory of some of the people I did work with was; that wedding venue had a self stocked after hours bar (no staff either) and had no draught beer. When the line installers heard this their wedding gift was that they contacted the venue, put in temporary Taps, lines, coolers, and gas canisters. All I needed do was buy a staff discounted keg of Guinness and Carlsberg. Rugby team and nurses were still drinking in there at breakfast time.



    All this talk just reminded me that my pension mail is being sent to an old address. Crap, that's something I am going to sort out this morning

    ⛥ ̸̱̼̞͛̀̓̈́͘#C̶̼̭͕̎̿͝R̶̦̮̜̃̓͌O̶̬͙̓͝W̸̜̥͈̐̾͐Ṋ̵̲͔̫̽̎̚͠ͅT̸͓͒͐H̵͔͠È̶̖̳̘͍͓̂W̴̢̋̈͒͛̋I̶͕͑͠T̵̻͈̜͂̇Č̵̤̟̑̾̂̽H̸̰̺̏̓ ̴̜̗̝̱̹͛́̊̒͝⛥



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    #15951
    DvB
    Registered Users Posts: 10,267 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121847683#Comment_121847683

    Have heard similar stories from back in the day. Assume that's all been knocked on the head now, if nothing else for H&S reasons!

    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




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    #15952
    DvB
    Registered Users Posts: 10,267 ✭✭✭✭DvB


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    WFH this morning and copped to change my countdown calendar to March!

    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




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    #15953
    Norrie Rugger Head
    Registered Users Posts: 759 ✭✭✭Norrie Rugger Head


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121847794#Comment_121847794

    Even going back, (checks calendar) Jesus Christ 18 years!!! it was considered a "Dry" site but if you were on shift at night time, with the right Brewing Shift Manager, there were always a few pints to be had off the sampling line.

    There were nights where I would get the LUAS in knowing that I would not be driving at 06:00 at the end of the shift

    ⛥ ̸̱̼̞͛̀̓̈́͘#C̶̼̭͕̎̿͝R̶̦̮̜̃̓͌O̶̬͙̓͝W̸̜̥͈̐̾͐Ṋ̵̲͔̫̽̎̚͠ͅT̸͓͒͐H̵͔͠È̶̖̳̘͍͓̂W̴̢̋̈͒͛̋I̶͕͑͠T̵̻͈̜͂̇Č̵̤̟̑̾̂̽H̸̰̺̏̓ ̴̜̗̝̱̹͛́̊̒͝⛥



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    #15954
    DvB
    Registered Users Posts: 10,267 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121847827#Comment_121847827

    Madness.

    But brilliant at the same time!! 🤣

    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




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    #15955
    Norrie Rugger Head
    Registered Users Posts: 759 ✭✭✭Norrie Rugger Head


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121847844#Comment_121847844

    My team was a bit more reserved, even if there would be a pint or three had.

    Nights where I had to cover a different team's lab analyst though? It was like my little test room was a pub. Everyone, including the old school Shift Manager, would be in there skulling beers. You would get all the work done, so my sampling rounds would be completed and tests run, guys on the fermentation panel have everything in the green, and lorry lines charged for the UK. Then the beers...

    ⛥ ̸̱̼̞͛̀̓̈́͘#C̶̼̭͕̎̿͝R̶̦̮̜̃̓͌O̶̬͙̓͝W̸̜̥͈̐̾͐Ṋ̵̲͔̫̽̎̚͠ͅT̸͓͒͐H̵͔͠È̶̖̳̘͍͓̂W̴̢̋̈͒͛̋I̶͕͑͠T̵̻͈̜͂̇Č̵̤̟̑̾̂̽H̸̰̺̏̓ ̴̜̗̝̱̹͛́̊̒͝⛥



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    #15956
    DvB
    Registered Users Posts: 10,267 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121847860#Comment_121847860

    As a big fan of Guinness I'm glad I made the decision to not take up my mates offer to work with him there so. I'd have been a raging alco!

    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




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    #15957
    Norrie Rugger Head
    Registered Users Posts: 759 ✭✭✭Norrie Rugger Head


    I started there hating stout but there's no way you can be covered in Guinness all through the shift and NOT end up liking it.


    Wind's just knocked out the power. Great, have untill the laptop dies, tethered to phone, before I have to go into the office

    ⛥ ̸̱̼̞͛̀̓̈́͘#C̶̼̭͕̎̿͝R̶̦̮̜̃̓͌O̶̬͙̓͝W̸̜̥͈̐̾͐Ṋ̵̲͔̫̽̎̚͠ͅT̸͓͒͐H̵͔͠È̶̖̳̘͍͓̂W̴̢̋̈͒͛̋I̶͕͑͠T̵̻͈̜͂̇Č̵̤̟̑̾̂̽H̸̰̺̏̓ ̴̜̗̝̱̹͛́̊̒͝⛥



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    #15958
    Norrie Rugger Head
    Registered Users Posts: 759 ✭✭✭Norrie Rugger Head


    Estimated power restoration 14:15? Bollocks


    Never have a bad word to say about ESB networks crews though. Fantastic efforts in horrid weather conditions. Deserve every cent they earn


    Weather really feels like Christmas is coming though. It's like a November day

    ⛥ ̸̱̼̞͛̀̓̈́͘#C̶̼̭͕̎̿͝R̶̦̮̜̃̓͌O̶̬͙̓͝W̸̜̥͈̐̾͐Ṋ̵̲͔̫̽̎̚͠ͅT̸͓͒͐H̵͔͠È̶̖̳̘͍͓̂W̴̢̋̈͒͛̋I̶͕͑͠T̵̻͈̜͂̇Č̵̤̟̑̾̂̽H̸̰̺̏̓ ̴̜̗̝̱̹͛́̊̒͝⛥



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    #15959
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,820 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121847947#Comment_121847947

    With weather like that today it’d be time to take the roads in awful day!



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    #15960
    antimatterx
    Registered Users Posts: 2,779 ✭✭✭antimatterx


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121847935#Comment_121847935

    I think it's an age thing as well. I hate it when I was a young fella and started drinking. It became my drink of choice at 25/26



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    #15961
    beachhead
    Registered Users Posts: 2,432 ✭✭✭beachhead


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121842139#Comment_121842139

    When did redundancy after redundancy start? Lack of foresight by the management



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